Installing steam setup in USB drive

[EffriT]

Is it possible to install a steam setup in a gigabyte USB drive? Just asking.

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It is, but things will run as slow as all hell. I'm assuming gigabyte is the brand, or you mean a 1tb drive.

You can set up a new SteamLibrary on the disk rather than install Steam on it, that way it can be used with different Steam installations, and things will work ok if you run Steam without it plugged in.

Personally I have back-up installations of *everything* in a SteamLibrary on an external disk, then I can delete anything with impunity from a machine's hard drive at a moment's notice, and if I want to play something I shelved ages ago, or play on another machine I close Steam, copy the app folder and appmanifest_<appid>.acf into the right places on my local disk and launch Steam again to play, which is a bit quicker than downloading stuff.

Totally unofficial and guaranteed to break at some point of course (and sometimes a game will spaz out and get downloaded anyway), still it works well for me and might for you, if you have the transfer rates and patience to stand it. :)

[EffriT]

Thanks for the info Warface. Appreciate it.